ON SITE SEARCH INDEXED BY GOOGLE - no follow or no index

[reallyitsme]

Google indexes alll our internetal searches: search box is brand - clothes types - size type - and for each page it creates a page that which creates duplicate page title and unnecessary content. Should I do a nofollow on the advance search or a no index. Many thanks for the info. Sonja

[ShaMenz]

Hi Sonja,

Adding the meta noindex tag will instruct the search engine to remove the URL from the index.

In almost every case I would recommend using noindex, follow as this will allow link juice to continue to flow to other pages within your site.

Hope that helps,

Sha

[reallyitsme]

Dear Sha,

many thanks for your reply - great answer! Just a small follow on question. I also have brand option so say a visitor a customer click on gucci logo all the gucci products come up. Now the first page I can create my own title so it would say gucci shop ... however all follow on pages have the same title. In effect its the same products alredy indexed would you recommend that I also do a no index on this option as well. So basically, only have the products and the categories indexed? Many thanks for your time Sonja ps we do not stock gucci : @ )

[ShaMenz]

Hi Sonja,

It sounds like you are referring to issues with pagination within your site.

The rel=next and rel=previous tags were recently made available to address this situation.

Here is an explanation of how to implement the rel=next & rel=previous tags from the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Hope that helps,

Sha